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Say what? Both teams react to Seahawks 20-3 win over Raiders

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Here are some select quotes from players and coaches from both teams after the Seattle Seahawks beat the Oakland Raiders 20-3 in their preseason finale on Friday at CenturyLink Field.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS

Coach Pete Carroll

(On whether to go another series with Jackson…) We talked about it, but we felt we had enough done. I really feel good about Tarvaris, we know what he can do, we’ve seen him again on the practice field. He’s got terrific potential to make plays and he’s running the offense really well and he did a classic thing of trying to do a little bit more on that first drive and jamming it in, but it’s probably a good thing. We don’t need him to play like that, we just need him to play with the system and not try too hard, and he’s going to do fine for us.

(On the rookie offensive linemen, Carpenter and Moffitt…) We wanted to do a thorough job of evaluating, there was a lot of plays in this game, it was a really cool game for these two kids, and we’ll just see where it goes. Both guys can play. It’s not that they can’t play, and we have a problem. We don’t have a problem. It’s how far has James come. It’s been extraordinarily hard to have him do this in just one camp’s time. He’s going against the best guys that we can throw him against. We evaluate, we know he’s getting better. He’s a monster blocker, he’s going to be a terrific blocker for us, and it’s just a matter of does he have everything together enough so that we can go with him this early in the season. He’s going to play a ton this year, when we decide to go with him or not this week coming up. It’s great for Breno, too. Breno last year, and coming into this year, we expected him to be able to play, and we expected him to be a factor, and he’s done a very good job, he’s really improved a ton. He’s played beautifully during the preseason. We have a good situation, and we just have to figure out how far along we are. We won’t tell you everything that we’re doing, though.

QB Tarvaris Jackson

(On what the offense accomplished tonight…) “A rhythm. We found a rhythm today. We were able to gain some confidence. I think as a unit, as a first unit, I think we did a pretty good job except for that interception I had. We did a pretty good job, moved the ball down the field, unfortunately we only put three points on the board but we had the opportunity to put 14 points on the board and that’s stuff we can clean up. This was a good start.”

(On the offensive line giving him time to throw tonight…) “Oh yeah definitely. I want to commend those guys for the pocket I had tonight. I had seven drop-backs or something like that and I didn’t get touched so that was great. It was just something that we wanted to hop on and Coach hopped on and we wanted to work on and we got a pocket tonight, a clean pocket, and we were able to get some throws downfield.”

DE Raheem Brock

(On getting pressure on the opposing quarterbacks…) “I just think we did a good job of communicating at first and then everybody just trusting each other and going out there and executing the defense well and trying to get after the quarterback. We did a pretty good job.”

(On if the strong showing tonight gives the team confidence heading into the regular season…) “Oh yeah, I’ve been that confident. I’ve been that confident. Yeah, we’re ready for next week. We’re going to start getting ready tomorrow.”

OAKLAND RAIDERS

Coach Hue Jackson

(Why did you leave your starters in the game, as long as you did…) “I wanted them to play. At that point in time in the game, we did some things that were very uncharacteristic of us, just in an assignment standpoint. It was nothing huge, I just wanted them to score.

I think I need our offense to be executed. For the most part we did some good things. But we didn’t do them good enough. We’ve got to score. That’s how I got this job. I have got to get this team in the end zone.”

(Were you tempted to get Terrelle Prior in the game…) “I thought about it, but there was so much pressure and having to call plays that he hadn’t had a chance to practice, I didn’t want to put him in a uncomfortable situation. I don’t think that’s fair to the kid.”

QB Jason Campbell

(On how the team looked…) “I felt good. I thought the offensive line did a great job protecting us. Once again I don’t think I got touched. I was able to make rhythm passes and get the ball out quickly, so we just got to learn to finish drives. Like I said, again, penalties. Penalties put us in a third-and-long situation in one drive and that other drive we’ve got to finish. Coach, he wants us [first string] to play a little bit more once we the game got going, there are things you do that build more chemistry, you want to keep playing a little bit longer. There have been times where we haven’t had the ball that much. He just wanted to get more passes in there.”